#and the disappointment in omega's tone when nahida dismisses his method of seeking knowledge

[screamingcrows]

Taking a break from the depressive boothill spiraling to instead bring some more lighthearted Dottore ones. I'd wager Dottore avoids food from Sumeru, at least the younger segments (think just been tossed from the Akademiya age). Based on Omega's attitude towards being in Sumeru and having seemingly no desire to interact with it more than possible, he probably still feels estranged. Now, if Omega is at the Prime of his life, I think it's fair to assume that he's mellowed out since his youth (practically everyone is more polarised, rash, and extreme in their actions during their youth, an inherent consequence of the timespan where our prefrontal cortex is remodelled. And from the way Webtorre acts with Krupp, his slipup of briefly wondering where he is even though he himself just executed him tells me that he most likely was prone to acting on a whim at that age. Yeah okay it's implied that Krupp has failed him before, but you cannot tell me Dottore couldn't have solved that situation with Diluc and Krupp without murdering his subordinate). If you hated a place and a culture, avoidance behavior is a pretty common next move right? Dottore is smart, he'd realise that just because something originates from a place or can be associated with another thing, they're not inherently connected. And he can enjoy one without the other. Maybe older versions really enjoy spicy cuisine? This was the long way to ask what people headcanon as being his food preference/favourite dish (dishes if you count one for each segment, I sure would)